Friday, August 26, 2011

This amused me (about truth's relationship to me)

On Facebook there's been a fair amount of jackoff nonsense on a couple of unschooling discussion pages, with people stirring up 100+ response topics and then deleting all or some of the discussion. So I'm bringing this here before it goes down someone's drain. The guy I quote and was responding to already pulled all of his stuff after being a butt to many nice unschoolers who were voluntarily offering years of experience.

a guy wrote: ‎-=@Sandra. Just because you say it does not make it true. -=-

Sandra Dodd: You're right. If something is true, it isn't true *just* because I say it.

5 comments:

good response. This type of 'jackassing' is one of the main reasons why I left FB. I saw too many useless arguments going way too far. and in real life you can't just delete something you've said. Once you've said it you have to own it. What happens on FB is artifical and at times infuriating because of this. It just wasn't a healthy place for me :)

The "just" part was that his insulting arguments were about what the unschoolers were "just" recommending. I pointed out that it wasn't "just" anything, but he was insisting on using "just" repeatedly.

It's a good and useful word, but can also be used in put-downs. I'm just sayin'. :-)